The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-18
FACT AND FANCY.


Money Is the root Of all evil. Hence the
motto Root, hog, or die.n
Ripe tomatoes are still being gathered in
the gardens OF Santa Cruz, Cal.
1t costs franklin parish, Louisiana, % each
a month to support its paupers
Eastern capitalists paid $1,000, 600 a few
days ago for mine at Austin, New.
Earnest Word was the name Of q member Of
the Georgia Legislature who lately died.
G. Joslin, aged 80 years, is being tired at
South Grmsby, Canada, on a charge Of rap
ing 13-year-old girl.
ular subscription to purchase gold.mounted
sword for Gen. Miles
The grocers OF Winnipeg, Manitoba, are
making a vigorous fight for the suppression Of
hawkers ana pcddlers.
There is talk OF connecting the United
States and Mexico by building bridge over
the Rio Gre, at Laredo.
A rich Partisan who died few weeks ago
left $50, 900, to the Paris Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals.
A corps OF surveyors is at work establishing
the boundary line between Yucatan, Mexico,
and Belize British possession.
In the grave OF one of the ancient Indian
chiefs at Oaxaca, Mexico, recently opened, an
idol OF pure gold was discovered,
Miss Elizabeth Ballart Christian girl, re-
gently Joined the Jewish church in New York
city in order to marry her Hebrew lover.
While the price Of coal is rising there is
some small comfort in the promise that there
WILDE an abundance OF Ice next summer.
The mercury in Dakota last week reached
sixty degrees below zero. Dakota doubtless
wants TO come into the Union in order to get
warm.
A young man drinking too much need not
be warned to remember his head in the morn
ing His head win be so big that he will not
forget il.
A negro stole bible In Baltimore, Md. and
pawued IL for 10 cents, with which he bought
three glasses of beer He is now in jail for
six months
The present style Of cat devotes so much
time TO sleep and counting that the crop OF
rats in this country has increased 80 per cent
in ten years.
An old Maine lobstcrman estimates the
number Of Holsters caught on that coast the
past year at 90, 900, 900, the smallest catch for
twenty years.
The new courthouse at Los Angeles, Cal,
is TO be located on high hill near the center
Of the city, and it will be an imposing cdidce
1t will cost S350,0O0
The Freemasons of Maine propose to have
banquet on the Goth Of March next TO cele-
brate the 125th anniversary of the introduction
Of Masonry in that state
'Oh, dear, wish something would hap
penl' is what the girl said to the fellow who
called upon her for three years without pro-
posing He took the hint and didn't go there
again.
In the county clerks Office at San Francisco,
Cal, is posted up the following notice: Lady
applicants for positions will please weep in the
ante room, as the clerk suffers greatly from
damp feet"
A resident of Palatka, Fla, has invented a
sewng-machine that promises 10 do great
things. The attachment consists Of n number
Of wires so arranged that scraps OF cloth are
sewed on base IN substantial manner, and
rugs, trimmings, lambrequlns, etc, can be
made very rayidly.
In the new army and navy hospital, recent
ly opened at Hot Springs, Ark, are accommo
dations for eighteen officers and sixty-four
enlisted men. The room is divided between
applicants from the naval and military ser
vice and the marine corps, and can be in
creased when necessary.
What the Beecher-Tilton trial did for Brook
yn, New York, and Tillletudlum, the Lord
Colin Campbell case has done for London,
Liverpool, Edlnburg, Dublin, 'and the parts
adjacent" as the lawyers say when they sell
an eight by ten barn with an attachment
consisting of two piggeries and a cow-shed
Publicity leads TO prudence, while darkness
is always provocative OF crime The more
streets are deprived OF electric lights the
greater becomes the supply OF improper
houses occupied by improper women. The
more publicity you give TO the doings oil Town
Boards the greater viii be their supply OF In
legrity and good sense
The Philadelphia bookseller says; Limp
leather binding Is used largely in devotional
books, closing tightly aud shutting them in as
II slipped into leather bag II is looked up
on as new device, when In fact It is relic Of
the parchment age. The parchment rolls
were put in a covering, drawn like purse
string, carried by the owner or attached TO his
grdle. II was the 'book-bag" sometimes
seen In the old cuts, held by the string, as the
devout owner pursued her way TO public wor.
ship.
Men and women are inclined to evil as
sparks fy upward. Rakes and wantons take
TO their neighbours wives and husbands. The
good soon learn TO become bad, the bad worse.